“Everyone loves LeBron,” Boyd said right after he was drafted. “To be known as someone like him is a blessing, it’s humbling.”

“Dimez” explained that his nickname came from his real-life basketball skills — he loved to dish out assists. But he realized that his virtual prowess was something special seven or eight years ago, and eventually work his way up to winning an All-Star Weekend Tournament Championship in February.

“I remember back to the Modern Warfare 2 days watching OpTic gaming, everybody playing and competing, and I was like, man, why doesn’t 2K do this?” he said. “And years, years later, they finally announced it. I’m just happy to be a part of it.”

“I come from a pretty tough background,” he added. “Leading up to this, I had no path, I had no career, I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do. Then they announced the league and it hit me immediately: This is what I’ve been playing for each year.”

He says he plays “every day, as much as possible” on both Xbox and Playstation, and that’s “not going to stop now.”

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